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Consider joining:Today's Health/Excercise "Special" Message:Wear It Purple to support gay youth at riskSupport, By SSHQ, 13th October, 2010The new Wear it Purple campaign came about in response to the horrific news that four teenagers committed suicide in the US last week.
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31Gay Pride, Atlanta; Oct 10, 2010
Gay Pride, Atlanta; Oct 10, 2010
By Michael A. Lindenberger / Oct 13, 2010 / Time, CNN
Gay rights advocates are cheering Tuesday's decision by a federal judge in conservative Riverside, California, to order an immediate end to the military's discrimination against gay service men and women. The Justice Department has not yet said whether it will appeal the order, which applies to the U.S. military worldwide, but already many supporters are calling on President Obama to let the ruling stand. Once again, the President finds himself outflanked by activists, this time Republican gay activists who sued to stop Don't Ask, Don't Tell and who keep winning in federal courts even as Obama himself struggles to keep his promises to end discrimination against gays.
It's a box Obama finds himself in more and more often when it comes to gay rights issues. Even as U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips was issuing her worldwide injunction to the military Tuesday, the Administration filed notice it will appeal a federal ruling in Massachusetts that earlier this year struck down another law that is anathema to gay rights supporters, the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. In its filing, the Administration called the law unfair, and said it ought never to have been passed, but nevertheless argued it does not violate the Constitution. That prompted gay bloggers and others to cry foul, warning that their patience with Obama, who most argue has yet to keep his promises to gay and lesbian supporters, is running out.
Letting Judge Phillips' ruling stand would be a very good way to get gays and lesbians off the sidelines. But allowing a single judge to overturn "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," without any review by a higher court, could raise questions of legitimacy, and not just about the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" decision. Gays have won a remarkable sweep of victories in federal court this year - with judges striking down "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the Defense of Marriage Act, and in San Francisco, a voter-approved state ban on gay marriage known as Prop 8. Those victories have cheered gay rights supporters enormously, but opponents have pointedly noted that Americans continue to reject gay marriage any time the question is to put to the ballot. And while polls show Americans support the repeal of DADT, the fact is that if it were so unpopular, then Congress wouldn't be having such trouble repealing it.
The gay marriage case in California has strong parallels to the DADT decision now confronting Obama. The marriage decision is under appeal now, with arguments scheduled to take place before a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel in early December. But already questions of legitimacy have dogged that case. That's because California's elected leaders did what Obama has so far refused to do: Attorney General Jerry Brown and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declined to appeal the ruling. For now, a third-party group has been allowed to step in and appeal, but many observers - including the trial judge who heard the case - have said the Ninth Circuit may rule they lack standing. If that happens, gay marriage opponents told TIME, the courts risk damaging their own legitimacy.
Indeed, those kinds of concerns are one reason why Obama is unlikely to let the DADT ruling stand unchallenged. Former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson, one of the lawyers who brought the successful challenge to Prop 8, told TIME this summer that the White House nearly always defends statutes in court, whether the President agrees with them or not. There are exceptions, he said, but they typically involve laws that the President believes are clearly unconstitutional or that infringe upon the constitutional power of the executive branch.
But no matter what happens, Judge Phillips' ruling stands as a powerful vindication for gay rights supporters and for the many critics of the military's discriminatory policy. The law, enacted after President Bill Clinton failed to lift the ban on gays in the military altogether, had kept in place the military's blanket prohibition of gays serving in its ranks, but also set up strict rules for when and how officers could inquire whether a member was gay. As long as a soldier did not announce his or her homosexuality, and avoided doing anything that revealed it, the military was barred from asking.
It was an uncomfortable compromise from the beginning. Between 1993 and 2001, the military discharged some 7,856 service members, according to Phillips' 86-page ruling. After the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq began, the rate of dismissal declined, but didn't stop: Another 5,167 were dismissed between 2002 and 2009. At trial, gay soldiers and officers testified to the corrosive effects of the policy. One such witness was Air Force Maj. Michael Almy, a decorated officer who served three tours in Iraq. He testified that he came out to himself as a gay man a few years after his enlistment, and never told anyone in the Air Force of his orientation. In 2005, 12 years after his enlistment, someone searched the private e-mails on his computer and found a message by Almy "discussing homosexual conduct" and as a result the major was eventually discharged.
Remember: Boycott Target and Best Buy for donating money towards anti-gay political candidates/organizations and to Proposition 8 (California) to prevent gay marriage. The Formal Boycott began this past weekend. I stopped shopping these stores - even though I want a new washer/dryer and new clothes for the Fall. I would not purchase "Blood Diamonds," nor should a person / organization be contributing funds to both Hitler / Nazi's and the Jews at the same time! Obviously giving money to the Jews and not Hitler/Nazi's is the right thing to do. Hence, these companies violated my trust and well-being. They gave money to my enemy who would terminate me from my job, deny me housing and send me to a Internment camp. Therefore, goodbye Target and Best Buy! The CEO's of these companies have been insensitive to our reaction and do not even comprehend their actions! What takes so long to "fire" these Neanderthals?
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